revert

.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-config.json

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "retryOn429" : true,
+  "aliveStatusCodes" : [
+    200
+  ],
+  "ignorePatterns" : [
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://github.com/username"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://github.com/zhyChesterCheung"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://twitter.com"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://www.zocdoc.com"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://www.youtube.com"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://www.linkedin.com"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern" : "https://dev.azure.com"
+    }
+  ]
+}

.github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+# this script helps to reduce sporadic link check failures by retrying at a file-by-file level
+
+retry_count=3
+
+for file in "$@"; do
+  for i in $(seq 1 $retry_count); do
+    if markdown-link-check --config "$(dirname "$0")/markdown-link-check-config.json" \
+                           "$file"; then
+      break
+    elif [[ $i -eq $retry_count ]]; then
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    sleep 5
+  done
+done

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -13,26 +13,4 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   markdown-link-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-      - uses: lycheeverse/[email protected]
-        with:
-          # TODO address youtube exclusion after resolving
-          # https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1406
-          args: >
-            --verbose
-            --exclude-path elections/2019/governance-committee-election.md
-            --exclude-path elections/2020/governance-committee-election.md
-            --exclude https://github.com/username
-            --exclude https://github.com/zhyChesterCheung
-            --exclude https://twitter.com
-            --exclude https://www.zocdoc.com
-            --exclude https://www.youtube.com
-            './**/*.md'
-          fail: true
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
-
-      - run: cat lychee/out.md
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml

.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml

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+name: Reusable - Markdown link check
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  markdown-link-check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Install markdown-link-check
+        # fix version to 3.10.3 as 3.11.0 appears to ignore --config, so we can't specify our own
+        # configuration file
+        run: npm install -g [email protected]
+
+      - name: Run markdown-link-check
+        run: |
+          find . -type f \
+                 -name '*.md' \
+                 -not -path './elections/2019/governance-committee-election.md' \
+                 -not -path './elections/2020/governance-committee-election.md' \
+                 -not -path './elections/*/governance-committee-candidates.md' \
+               | xargs .github/scripts/markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh